Lawgivers News

Finally the long wait has come to and end.
Update 1.6 has been rolled out!

CHANGELOG:

- Achievements system with 20 achievements
- the president is now able to call snap election
- new action "Create scandal" (whip up a scandal about a lawmaker)
- new laws "Plastic tax", "Right of self defence", "Anti-money laundering" and "Sunday shopping ban"
- new constitutional law to introduce election majority bonuses
- new actions to promise on interviews "Invest more in research" and "Fight corruption"
- South Tyrol (my homeland) as playable country
- the president may now resign
- new events "Volcanic eruption" and "Blizzard"
- option to set election every 60 weeks
- option to approve constitutional changes with just 80% of votes
- population can now vote blank/null on elections
- new party and members ai behaviours
- substantial balance and AI improvements
- improved the way to change constitutional laws
- graphical and font enhancements
- improved life expectancy behaviour
- fixed that sometimes missions failed on reaching goal at same turn
- fixed a rare bug that could cause game corruption
- fixed several more minor bugs

I hope you don't mind if I added South Tyrol as playable country, It always has been my secret dream :)

As anticipated this will be the last major update before steam release. More than 110 public updates have been made, after release there will be more improvements (AI, balance, content) but most time will flow in our next big project. Thank you so much for all the support and beta testing. I hope it has been worth it.

If want to know more about our next plans and join a great community, visit us on Discord server here: https://discordapp.com/invite/kE7juYR

Since a few weeks Lawgivers Beta 1.6 is live on Steam beta branch for testing purpose. More improvements and features are on way!

Here are some upcoming features:

- Achievements system with 20 achievements
- new actions to plan on calendar, like snap election
- more ordinary and constitutional laws
- new events and missions
- substantial balance and AI improvements

If you have any more wishes or suggestions don't hesitate to join us on Discord. We are about to hit 1000 members :D

Thanks for all support!
All the best for new year!! 2020 gonna be great :)

Update 1.5.7 is out for all platforms with more changes and fixes! Here the complete changelog:

- new laws "Animal testing ban" and "Air travel tax"
- improved party AI on votes
- sometimes a party from another country was joining the game
- in rare cases it wasn't possible to start a new game
- money balance was sometimes not displayed correctly
- some localization errors

Thank you as usual for all the feedback and suggestions on discord!!
Stay tuned for major update 1.6!

Lawgivers is finally fully playable on MacOS and Linux. If you still find bugs don't hesitate to report them with the ingame feedback function. I will do my best to fix all reported problems asap.

Update 1.5.3:

- Mac and Linux edition released
- player can now continue after defeat if they can fix negative money or budget values
- improvements to localizations
- bugs related to referendums

Looking forward to update 1.6 and achievements.

Finally, after a long week of bugs hunting 1.5 is ready to ship on all platforms. Thanks to all followers who helped reporting errors on discord, or with the ingame feedback function.

Here the final changes for 1.5:

- Sweden as playable country
- new plannable Events "Revolution" and "Coup d'Etat"
- new law "Air travel tax"
- president can now suspend a law for 10 turns
- president can now supress protests and revolutions
- members order is now adjustable for elections
- members may now go to prison on bad actions
- custom parties are entering politics at beginning, if their foundation year is before the starting game year
- now players can speak good or bad about laws on interviews
- amendments for 20, 36, 48 or 54 seats in parliament
- possibility to start a new game from 1990
- cloud save for steam edition
- not elected members (activists) can be sent to distribute flyers
- max ingame parties increased to 8
- better UI navigation performance
- reduced application size on some platforms
- more helpful explanation for question marks
- many various layout improvements
- constitutional laws were passing when all lawmakers voted to abstain
- some localization text where sometimes not displayed propely
- balance improvements according to feedback
- several more minor bugs


I've recieved many requested to introduce achievements to Lawgivers, and I've decided to go for it! You can expect them with Update 1.6.

Mac and Linux editions were successfully tested the last days and will be soon available on steam.

A special thanks to all reviewers, who every day encourage me to continue development. Stay cool!